Literature in English I

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Course Plan - 2019.1

Dates with assignments

In 2019.1: T01 - Fridays 7:30-10:50; T02 - Wednesdays 18:40-22:00

[1]   February 20th (T02) - February 22nd (T01)  

  Make-up activity   

                   Tasks 2 and 3 

[2]         February 27th (T02) - March 1st (T01)   

  Make-up activity   

                  Tasks 5 and 7

[3]         March 13th (T02) - March 8th (T01)   

   Make-up activity   

                  Tasks 8 and 9

[4]         March 20th (T02) - March 15th (T01)   

   Make-up activity   

                  Task 13 (Things fall apart - Chapters 1 to 6)

[5]       March 27th (T02) - March 22nd (T01)   

   Make-up activity   

                   Tasks 13 (Things fall apart - Chapters 7 to 13) and 14 

[6]        April 3rd (T02) - March 29th (T01)  

   Make-up activity   

                    Task 13 (Things fall apart - Chapters 14 to 19) 

Task 3    Read about Chimamanda Adichie's life and works. Click on the picture below. Take relevant notes to share with your professor and peers. 

[7]         April 10th (T02) - April 12th (T01)    [note the date switch for T01 April 5th for April 12th]

                 Informal meeting held prior to the professors' strike

[8]          June19th (T02) - April 5th (T01)   [note the date switch for T01 April 12th for April 5th]

  Make-up activity   

                      Task 13 (Things fall apart - Chapters 20 to 25)                     

[9]          July 3rd (T02) - July 5th (T01)   [The "real" beginning of the course]

  Chimamanda Adichie

Task 4    Read the Introduction (p. 1-13) to The Empire Writes Back. Click here. Highlight the main points and be ready to comment on them in class.

Task 5     Read the short story “A private experience”, by Chimamanda Adichie [in English]. [sent by your professor, via e-mail].  Answer the questions in the "Worksheet on The thing around your neck and A private experience" [To be provided by your professor]. The Portuguese version [sent by your professor, via e-mail] can be read for better understanding, but it will not be the text approached in class.

              [Part A]:     Task 1 + some getting to know each other [group dynamics] 

                                 Who's the professor? 

 Chimamanda Adichie

Click on the photo to reach my full Currículo Lattes

Task 6    Read the information about Journal Writing. Once a month you are expected to turn in your journal writing notebook with one (or more) journal entry (ies) with at least 250 words. [4 entries throughout the course]  Canceled for the LTA402 2018.1

Task 7    Watch "The danger of a single story", by Chimamanda Adichie [Click on the image below]. Take notes, analyze Adichie's main ideas, and be ready to discuss them in class with your peers and professor.

Task 8    Read chapter I - "Cutting the ground: critical models of post-colonial literatures" (p. 14-36) of The Empire Writes Back. Click here. 

Task 9    Watch "The novelist as forthright political thinker" - interview with Chimamanda Adichie. By Christiane Amanpour (CNN). [Click on the link below]. Take notes, analyze Adichie's main ideas, and be ready to discuss them in class with your peers and professor. 

The novelist as forthright political thinker, with Christiane Amanpour (CNN)

               [Part B]:    * Plan task 10 [Poem of the day]      

                              * Check contact info       

                               * Plan oral presentations    

                                 Task 2 [reading]

Anglophone Authors 

Jamaica Kincaid 

Task 10     Poem of the day  . (Individually or in pairs) At the beginning of each class, a student (or two) will be assigned to give a 5-minute presentation of a poem in English: read it, highlight aspects of it, present a [real] very short bio of the poet etc. Bare in mind: why did you pick this poem? React freely to it. It is always best to send slides/materials to your professor's e-mail prior to the class.

Afro-American authors 

[10]          July 10th (T02) - July 12th (T01)  

  Make-up activity referring to February 20th (T02) and February 22nd (T01) - Reading 

  Attendace list for these dates will be signed upon task accomplishment                                           

             [Part A]:   Tasks 2 [checking and sharing] and 10

             [Poem of the day: T01: Bruna and Max;  T02: Bruno]

  [Part B]:    Tasks 3 [checking and sharing] and 10

     [Poem of the day: T01: Bruno and Regiane;  T02: Ramon/Maysa]

             Announcement:

Task 14   Read about Chinua Achebe's life and works. Click here and on the picture below [and other sources]. Take relevant notes to share with your professor and peers. 

[11]          July 17th (T02) - July 19th (T01)   

  Make-up activity referring to March 1st (T01) and February 27th (T02)    

  Attendace list for these dates will be signed upon task accomplishment    

                [Part A]:  Tasks 5 [checking and sharing] and 10     

                              [Poem of the day: T01: Roberta and Maria Beatriz;  T02: Sara/Grazy ]

                [Part B]:  Tasks 7 [checking and sharing] and 10

                [Poem of the day: T01: Rebeka and Luan;  T02: Thays and Amanda]

                Announcement:

Task 15   Prepare for oral presentations and following tasks.

2ª Festa Literária de Ilhéus

“O feminino e a leitura do mundo”

[12]          July 24th (T02) - July 26th (T01)   

  Make-up activity referring to March 8th (T01) and March 13th (T02)    

  Attendace list for these dates will be signed upon task accomplishment    

                        [Part A]:  Tasks 8 [checking and sharing] and 10  

                        [Poem of the day: T01: Brenda;  T02: Jadhe]

                        [Part B]:   Tasks 9 [checking and sharing] and 10  

                        [Poem of the day: T01: Luana and Gabriel;  T02: Lilian and Elias]

[13]          July 31st (T02) - August 2nd (T01) 

  Make-up activity referring to March 15th (T01) and March 20th (T02)    

  Attendace list for these dates will be signed upon task accomplishment    

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                        [Part A]:  Tasks 13 (Things fall apart - Chapters 1 to 6; checking and sharing) and 10  

                        [Poem of the day: T01: Ulisses and Franciely;  T02: Lori/Jadhe and Fernanda]

                        [Part B]:   Tasks 12 [research plan],

                                      13 (Things fall apart - Chapters 1 to 6; checking and sharing) and 10  

                        [Poem of the day: T01: Caracas and Elisa;  T02: Nara/Matheus ]

[14]          August 7th (T02) - August 9th (T01)   

  Make-up activity referring to March 22nd (T01) and March 27th (T02)    

  Attendace list for these dates will be signed upon task accomplishment    

                        [Part A]:  Tasks 13 (Things fall apart - Chapters 7 to 13; checking and sharing),

                                     14 [checking and sharing] and 10  

                        [Poem of the day: T01: Lucina and Carolina;  T02:  Yasmim/Láisa / Vivaldo]

                        [Part B]:   Tasks 12 [oral presentations] and 10  

                        [Poem of the day: T01: Andrea and Arlene;  T02: Geovana and Amanda]

[15]           August 14th (T02) - August 16th (T01)        

  Make-up activity referring to March 29th (T01) and April 3rd (T02)    

  Attendace list for these dates will be signed upon task accomplishment    

                        [Part A]:    Task 13 (Things fall apart - Chapters 14 to 19; checking and sharing)

Oral presentations by (T01) Ulisses, Bruno, Brenda, Elisa and Lucina

                                 (T02) Ramon, Sara, Maysa, Grazy and Láisa

                        [Part B]:  

Oral presentations by (T01) Gabriel, Max and Andrea  ///  Maria Beatriz, Luan and Carolina

                                 (T02) Lori, Bruno, Thays and Jadhe

Reminder: deadline for sending Research Plan to isaiasfcarvalho@gmail.com 

                 [credit 2]: August 27th  

[16]          August 21st (T02) - August 23rd (T01)   

  Make-up activity referring to April 5th (T01) and June 19th (T02)    

  Attendace list for these dates will be signed upon task accomplishment    

                        [Part A]:   Task 13 (Things fall apart - Chapters 20 to 25; checking and sharing)   

Seleção PPGLLR 2020/2022           Edital nº XX/2019

Pós-Graduação em Letras (Mestrado e Doutorado):

Linguagens e Representações

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Disclaimer 

Assessment 

Bibliography 

A few principles 

Professor Isaias  

Anglophone Authors 

Geoffrey Chaucer 

Shakespeare 

John Milton 

John Dryden 

Edgar Allan Poe 

Jamaica Kincaid 

Angela Carter 

Caliban 

Peter Shaffer, Equus 

Eliot talks of Eliot 

Cultural Criticism